The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-12
DISASTERS.
Collapse Of Platform at Mil
waukee With Terrible Results
-Four
Killed and Many Wounded - Fatal
Powder Explosion ut . Texas
Celebration.
Immense ConAagration and Loss Of Life in
London-Three Lives Lost in Baltic
more.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. S.-During the
launching Of the new steam barge William
H. Wolf, at the ship yards OF Wolf & Da-
wilson Saturday afternoon, coal shed on
which about ono hundred people had gath
cred to witness the launching collapsed,
throwing the whole crowd into the water,
q distance OF thirty feet. Four dead bodies
have been taken out, and fourteen others,
who were seriously injured, were removed
to the hospital About one Thousand
people had gathered to witness the
launch. Directly opposite the cracled
vessel was large coal dock OF the
Northwestern Fuel Company, rooted
structure with huge derricks for unloading
coal and upon this q large nj mber Of peO-
pie assembled. As the Wolf struck the
water, her port bilge was buried deeply
and then she recovered and rolled heavily
to port. The water displaced by TIE hull
rose like tidal wave and swept over the
coal dock and upward to its roof, causing
cloud of coal dust and spray. The sup
ports were insufficient to withstand the
force Of the wave. and about forty feet of
the shed went down with its living freight.
A few cool-headed people at once set to
work to rescue the people thrown into the
river and those buried in the debris. Patrol
wagons were summoned and express wag-
ons turned into ambulances, and the dead
and injured carried away. Hundreds Of
row boats were on tho scene OF the ter
riblc disaster in an instant, and assisted
materially in rescuing many unfor-
Inmates from drowning. Tho list Of killed is
a. follows: Eddie Sebbel, sixteen years
old, crushed by the coal boxes with which
the coal was hauled out of the boats; an
unknown man, squeezed in between the
ships and coal dock and completely crushed,
the body sinking; Calvin Friester, twenty
eight years old, unmarried, died during the
evening; Charles Walrick, sent to neigh
boring drug store and from there to his
residence, where he died shortly after
ward. The injured are: Mrs.
James p. Brett, wounded on the
shoulder and head. She tumbled into the
water and was saved afterward; Mrs.
Albert Gibbs, wounded on the head and
shoulder. She also fell into the river but
was rescued; e. L. Barrows, thigh broken
and internal injuries; Mrs. FrOeling, OF
Kansas City, injured internally; Frank
Allcover, hurt in the chest and otherwise
injured; Arthur Coughlin, bookkeeper for
Greene 4 Button, internally injured;
Patrick kinsella, internally injured;
John Leisenfclder, leg broken; John
Martin, extent OF injuries not known,
but probably will recover. About dozen
people were thrown into the river, but
were rescued by the life saving crew and
boatmen whose crafts swarmed the river.
1t is believed, however, that the suction OF
the boat drew some Of them under,
andthe river is beng dragged. Thus lar
no bodies have been found. People WHO
were on the platform that gave way say
that before they could realize any thing ex-
cept that there was q crash, they were up
to their necka in water. Those who failed
to grasp any thing solid were swep: into
the river by the receding wave. few
minutes before the accident occurred Mr..
Davidson warned the people to leave, but
no attention was paid to him.
A SAD ENDING.
FT. WORTH, Tex, Aug. S.-TEe wind-up
of the prohibition campaign IN Fort Worth
has been the saddest in the State, and s6r-
row by it has been forced into three homes.
Friday night number Of men and boys
were collected on the public square firing
anvils and discharging fireworks in honor
of the victory won in the State by the ants,
when an accident occurred that resulted in
the death of two boys and the ill.,
juring of three others. James Laz-
enby, aged seventeen, was seated
OH an open key Of powder near the
auvils. Several men on the sidewalk were
firing roman candles, when ono of the balls
fell into the powder and o terrific explosion
followed. Lazenby was thrown up ten Or
fifteen feet, and Wave and Gus Hache!,
Will Thackaberry and Sam johnson were
burned, the latter two slightly, the others
20, O,sll
Hatchel died, and at five last evening James
Lazenby died. Gus Hachel may live few
hours. The affair is deeply regretted here.
TERRIBLE FIRE CALAMITY IN LONDON.
LONDON, Aug. S.-Whiteley's enormous
drspery and general stores and warehouses
in WestbOurne grove and Queens road,
Paddington, wero partially destroyed by
fire Saturday evening. The damage Is
placed ut $l,25O,OOO. It is believed that
there was no insurance upon the prop
erty. While the fire was in pro-
gress several of tho Whiteley's en-
ployes and score of firemen were crossing
y frall bridge which connected one Of the
burning building with another, when the
structure collapsed and threw its occupants
down into the street, distance Of thirty
feet. Three Of the employees and two fire.
men were killed. All the others received
terrible injuries.
BALTIMORE FATALITIES.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Aug. s.-Benry Nixon,
aged thirty-ivc. q boiler maker, Charles
Denmead, aged nineteen, and man known
rs Louis Of Antwerp wero drowned in
the river last evening. The former was
boating and the others were bathing. Nor
ris Riley. aged forty, Of Washington, was
struck BY freight train on the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad last evening and fatally
injured.
The Alillbro0k Tornado.
ST. LOUIS. Aug. additional advices
from the town of MillbrOOk, Kan. which